Grace Baptist Church - Evans, Ga

James 2:1-13 New King James Version (NKJV)Beware of Personal Favoritism2 My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality. 2 For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes, 3 and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, “You sit here in a good place,” and say to the poor man, “You stand there,” or, “Sit here at my footstool,” 4 have you not shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?5 Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts? 7 Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called?8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,”[a] you

Psalm 46 New King James Version (NKJV)God the Refuge of His People and Conqueror of the NationsTo the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A Song for Alamoth.46 God is our refuge and strength,A very present help in trouble.2 Therefore we will not fear,Even though the earth be removed,And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;3 Though its waters roar and be troubled,Though the mountains shake with its swelling. Selah4 There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God,The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High.5 God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved;God shall help her, just at the break of dawn.6 The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved;He uttered His voice, the earth melted.7 The Lord of hosts is with us;The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah8 Come, behold the works of the Lord,Who has made desolations in the earth.9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;He burns the chariot in the fire.10 Be still,

James 1:26-27 New King James Version (NKJV)26 If anyone among you[a] thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.Footnotes:James 1:26 NU-Text omits among you.

Proverbs 17:17New King James Version (NKJV)17 A friend loves at all times,And a brother is born for adversity.

James 1:21-25 New King James Version (NKJV)Doers—Not Hearers Only21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

Psalm 45 New King James Version (NKJV)The Glories of the Messiah and His BrideTo the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.”[a] A Contemplation[b] of the sons of Korah. A Song of Love.45 My heart is overflowing with a good theme;I recite my composition concerning the King;My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.2 You are fairer than the sons of men;Grace is poured upon Your lips;Therefore God has blessed You forever.3 Gird Your sword upon Your thigh, O Mighty One,With Your glory and Your majesty.4 And in Your majesty ride prosperously because of truth, humility, and righteousness;And Your right hand shall teach You awesome things.5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King’s enemies;The peoples fall under You.6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.7 You love righteousness and hate wickedness;Therefore God, Your God, has anointed YouWith the oil of gladness more than Your companions.8 All Your garments are scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia,Out

James 1:17New King James Version (NKJV)17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

Psalm 44 New King James Version (NKJV)Redemption Remembered in Present DishonorTo the Chief Musician. A Contemplation[a] of the sons of Korah.44 We have heard with our ears, O God,Our fathers have told us,The deeds You did in their days,In days of old:2 You drove out the nations with Your hand,But them You planted;You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.3 For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword,Nor did their own arm save them;But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance,Because You favored them.4 You are my King, O God;[b]Command[c] victories for Jacob.5 Through You we will push down our enemies;Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.6 For I will not trust in my bow,Nor shall my sword save me.7 But You have saved us from our enemies,And have put to shame those who hated us.8 In God we boast all day long,And praise Your name forever. Selah9 But You have cast us off and put us to shame,And You do not go out with our armies.10 You ma

James 1:16-20 New King James Version (NKJV)16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. 18 Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits of His creatures.Qualities Needed in Trials19 So then,[a] my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; 20 for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.Footnotes:James 1:19 NU-Text reads Know this or This you know.

Psalm 43 New King James Version (NKJV)Prayer to God in Time of Trouble43 Vindicate me, O God,And plead my cause against an ungodly nation;Oh, deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man!2 For You are the God of my strength;Why do You cast me off?Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?3 Oh, send out Your light and Your truth!Let them lead me;Let them bring me to Your holy hillAnd to Your tabernacle.4 Then I will go to the altar of God,To God my exceeding joy;And on the harp I will praise You,O God, my God.5 Why are you cast down, O my soul?And why are you disquieted within me?Hope in God;For I shall yet praise Him,The help of my countenance and my God.

James 1:12-15New King James Version (NKJV)Loving God Under Trials12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. 15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

2 Chronicles 7:14New King James Version (NKJV)14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.New King James Version (NKJV)The Holy Bible, New King James Version Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

James 1:9-11 New King James Version (NKJV)The Perspective of Rich and Poor9 Let the lowly brother glory in his exaltation, 10 but the rich in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he will pass away. 11 For no sooner has the sun risen with a burning heat than it withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beautiful appearance perishes. So the rich man also will fade away in his pursuits.

Psalm 42New King James Version (NKJV)BOOK TWO: Psalms 42—72Yearning for God in the Midst of DistressesTo the Chief Musician. A Contemplation[a] of the sons of Korah.42 As the deer pants for the water brooks,So pants my soul for You, O God.2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.When shall I come and appear before God?[b]3 My tears have been my food day and night,While they continually say to me,“Where is your God?”4 When I remember these things,I pour out my soul within me.For I used to go with the multitude;I went with them to the house of God,With the voice of joy and praise,With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.5 Why are you cast down, O my soul?And why are you disquieted within me?Hope in God, for I shall yet praise HimFor the help of His countenance.[c]6 O my God,[d] my soul is cast down within me;Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan,And from the heights of Hermon,From the Hill Mizar.7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;All Your waves and billows have gon

James 1:5-8New King James Version (NKJV)5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

2 Samuel 12:13-23New King James Version (NKJV)13 So David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. 14 However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die.” 15 Then Nathan departed to his house.The Death of David’s SonAnd the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it became ill. 16 David therefore pleaded with God for the child, and David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground. 17 So the elders of his house arose and went to him, to raise him up from the ground. But he would not, nor did he eat food with them. 18 Then on the seventh day it came to pass that the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead. For they said, “Indeed, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not heed our voice. How can we tell him that the child is dead? He

Psalm 41:1-13New King James Version (NKJV)The Blessing and Suffering of the GodlyTo the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.41 Blessed is he who considers the poor;The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.2 The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive,And he will be blessed on the earth;You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.3 The Lord will strengthen him on his bed of illness;You will sustain him on his sickbed.4 I said, “Lord, be merciful to me;Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”5 My enemies speak evil of me:“When will he die, and his name perish?”6 And if he comes to see me, he speaks lies;His heart gathers iniquity to itself;When he goes out, he tells it.7 All who hate me whisper together against me;Against me they devise my hurt.8 “An evil disease,” they say, “clings to him.And now that he lies down, he will rise up no more.”9 Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted,Who ate my bread,Has lifted up his heel against me.10 But You, O Lord, be merciful to me, and raise me up,Tha

James 1:1-4New King James Version (NKJV)Greeting to the Twelve Tribes1 James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad:Greetings.Profiting from Trials2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

Leviticus 10:1-3New King James Version (NKJV)The Profane Fire of Nadab and Abihu10 Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them. 2 So fire went out from the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. 3 And Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke, saying:‘By those who come near MeI must be regarded as holy;And before all the peopleI must be glorified.’”So Aaron held his peace

Philippians 1:12-14New King James Version (NKJV)Christ Is Preached12 But I want you to know, brethren, that the things which happened to me have actually turned out for the furtherance of the gospel, 13 so that it has become evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my chains are in Christ; 14 and most of the brethren in the Lord, having become confident by my chains, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.